Most Viewed Indian Songs on YouTube

About this ranking: where the views come from

“Hanuman Chalisa” by Hariharan leads this ranking with 5,696,850,458 views, 3.83 billion ahead of “Lehanga” by Jass Manak. This page tracks 8,602 uploads in all — Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included — worth 646.31 billion views between them, 1,684 of which have passed 100 million.

• Number one
  Hanuman Chalisa — Hariharan5,696,850,458 views, as of 9 September 2026
• Gap to number two
  3.83 billion views (205% clear)Second place is “Lehanga” by Jass Manak on 1,870,756,932 views.
• Uploads ranked here
  8,602 uploadsSpread across 2,861 distinct artist credit lines, covering Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included.
• Past 100 million views
  1,684 of 8,60247 of those have gone past 1 billion.
• Top 50 share
  10% of all views in this ranking67.83 billion views out of 646.31 billion across all 8,602 uploads.
• Recent versus catalogue
  0 of the top 50 were released in 2024 or laterThe newest entry in the top 50 is “Jhoome Jo Pathaan” by Arijit Singh, Sukriti Kakkar, from December 2022.
• Last refreshed
  9 September 2026, 18:31 (server time)Read from the YouTube Data API by the site's daily update job.
• Language mix at the top
  Hindi (64), Punjabi (27), Other (9)3 different language tags appear across the top 100. Counts are the tag recorded against each upload, not a guess from the title.
• Punjabi inside this ranking
  27 of the top 100 are tagged PunjabiWorth 27.93 billion views between them. This board is deliberately not language-filtered, so Punjabi releases compete here against every other Indian-language upload we track.

How this data is collected

Every figure in the table above is read from the official YouTube Data API — the same counter YouTube prints under the video itself. Nothing is scraped from another website, and no number here is an estimate, a projection or a chart position we assigned.

A scheduled job on our server re-reads the whole catalogue once a day, at 18:30 server time, and writes the new totals straight into the table you are reading. The most recent successful refresh for this ranking finished on 9 September 2026, 18:31.

View counts are YouTube's own public totals, so they count plays and not listeners: repeat plays by the same person are included, which is part of why long-running Punjabi hits keep climbing years after release.

Each upload is tracked as its own row. An official video, a lyric video and a live performance of the same song are three separate uploads with three separate counters, so the same title can legitimately appear more than once in the ranking — the numbers are never merged, because YouTube does not merge them.

This board is the widest one on the site: every tracked upload with a view count, in any Indian language, with the Punjabi releases included rather than split out.

Songs are added when we find them on an official artist or record-label channel. We embed YouTube's player and host no audio or video files ourselves. A total can also fall or vanish: if an upload is deleted or set to private on YouTube its counter stops, and the row leaves this ranking at the next refresh.

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